BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Three editors of Hungary’s leading independent news website Index.hu and more than 50 journalists resigned on Friday over the recent ousting of their editor-in-chief, which they said was an “open attempt to exert pressure” on Index.

They said in a statement on Index that they quit after the chairman of the board rejected their request to restore Szabolcs Dull to his position.

(Reporting by Krisztina Than and Marton Dunai; Editing by Jon Boyle)

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